---Cedartown Express: Judge Underwood has refused a new trial in the Meeks
case, and now it goes to the supreme court.

---There is scarcely a wheat field in this valley but what has the rust. As
yet however it has not appeared on the stalk.

---Farmers in this community complain of the backwardness of the cotton
crop. It is slow about coming up, and fears are entertained that some of it
will have to be plowed up and replanted. (The Constitution, Atlanta, GA, May
16, 1876)